Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are an American NBA professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967, and it changed its name to the Rockets before the first season, and it changed its name to the Nuggets in 1974. In 1976, the Nuggets lost the final ABA Championship to the New York Nets. It qualified for the NBA playoffs for nine consecutive seasons in the 1980s and ten consecutive seasons from 2004 to 2013, but it did not make any championships since its last year in the ABA.